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A terrace overlooking the sea. Night.
PRINCE HENRY. / It is the sea, it is the sea, / In all its vague immensity, / Fading and darkening in the distance! / Silent, majestical, and slow, / The white ships haunt it to and fro, / With all their ghostly sails unfurled, / As phantoms from another world / Haunt the dim confines of existence! / But ah! how few can comprehend / Their signals, or to what good end / From land to land they come and go! / Upon a sea more vast and dark / The spirits of the dead embark, / All voyaging to unknown coasts. / We wave our farewells from the shore, / And they depart, and come no more, / Or come as phantoms and as ghosts.